DYNAVISION 3 Total Visual Enhancement v1.0

A player must be on base to score and hitting helps drive in runs. We believe that two critical parameters for any batter and their baseball team is batting average and on base percentage. As with the batting average, the University of Cincinnati is significantly different from their opponents p = 0.02. With their opponents slugging percentage falling over that same time frame 0.082 this produces a difference of 0.115 with 95% confidence interval. In 2010 the slugging percentage, a reflection of hits with extra bases increased from 0.372 to 0.404, whereas for the opponents it decreased from 0.411 to 0.376. In Table 2 we see that the slugging percentage and on base percentage increases from 2010 to 2011. Home runs decreased for the University of Cincinnati and the opponents. Doubles, triples and runs batted in all increased. The number of hits increased 14% whereas the number of hits for the opponents decreased 8%, possibly due to a decrease in at bats of 5%. The numbers of games played and at bats for the University of Cincinnati was similar between 20. The team rankings in the Big East improved from 7 th in 2010 to tied for 4 th in 2011 where they had a 0.500 season in 2010 to a 0.526 season in 2011. During the same time frame the opponent's batting average slightly decreased from 0.288 in 2010 to 0.280 in 2011. The team batting average went from being ranked 12 th in the Big East in 2010 to tied for 4 th in 2011. = at bat, 2b = doubles, 3b = triples, H.R. An example of an escalation method is to increase the rotational speed of the rotary or the decrease the time of the flash for the Tachistoscope. Such variation is justifiable because the goal of the activity was for benefiting the athlete's performance as per coach instructions. It is also a common coaching / training tool to keep an athlete interested and engaged in the training activities. The training pre-season and in season was gently escalated and varied, as the athlete's skill and abilities allowed.

A typical training session in season would include: 2 minutes on Dynavision, 1 Eyeport session, 1 Tachistoscope, 1 session on Near Far, 1 session on Rotary, 2 sessions on Brock String, and 1 session on Strobe Glasses. The alternation of exercises is a fairly standard philosophy in training to keep the athlete engaged and to avoid boredom from an excessively rigid routine. Training sessions were alternated to include a variation of the exercises described above.

We found that many batting parameters increased significantly for the team when compared to the opponents' performance as well as the Big East Conference's performance.ĭuring the baseball season each athlete engaged in twice weekly sessions of vision training that typically lasted 20 to 30 minutes consisting of approximately 6 to 10 one minute exercise. In this paper we report on the methodology used to improve the vision performance of the batters in the University of Cincinnati Baseball team for the 2011 season and compare batting statistics to 2010 team statistics. The coaching and vision performance team at the University of Cincinnati decided that enhanced vision performance of the batters would be beneficial to the offensive game of the University of Cincinnati Baseball team and initiated a vision training program in January 2011. Therefore, there remains only about 0.17 seconds to decide to swing.Īs a physical activity batting is ideal for assessing and quantifying the benefits and affects of high performance vision training. With the velocity of action potentials being approximately 60 m/s and approximately 2 mS needed to cross each synapse, and a minimum of 5 synapses crossed that means it can take as long as 0.03 seconds to process the swing. The swing takes approximately 0.2 seconds. When swinging the bat the batter must consider both the timing of the swing and the angle of the swing.

In that time the batter needs to spot the pitch, assess rotation and direction of the ball to finally make a decision to swing or not. The time it takes for a pitched ball to reach the plate is approximately 0.4 seconds.

There is general agreement that vision training is beneficial to various sports related activities but an objective and quantifiable assessment validating the concept is relatively lacking in the literature. In particular, batting is an activity that has rigorous demands for eye-hand coordination requiring concentration and good visual acuity as well as depth perception. Baseball is a sport with a tremendous amount of quantitative batting data being generated from batting averages, slugging percentages, and numbers of hits, walks, strike outs and a host of others.

DYNAVISION 3 Total Visual Enhancement v1.0